A GoFundMe page for the former England player Colin Clive has raised almost $800,000 in just two weeks after being set up due to the death of Colin’s parents.
Barbara and Dave Clive both tragically passed away within days of one another at the end of January and, as their only child, Colin, has been left with a growing list of living expenses, including the house they all lived in, as well as hefty medical bills.
In addition to this terrible loss, Colin, who was an attacker for the England Men’s National Team between 2012-2014, has also been battling brain cancer for almost two years; recently, he has started an experimental treatment that is successfully fighting the cancer.
Colin, now 28 years old, also played college lacrosse for Siena College, New York, until his graduation in 2014 and helped England to victory at the 2012 ELF Men’s Lacrosse Championships in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, as well as to finish fifth at the 2014 Men’s World Lacrosse Championship in Colorado, USA.
His family live in America and Colin’s dad, Dave, at the age of 70, had remained in employment to ensure his family were eligible for health cover.
After Dave and Barbara’s deaths, Colin’s life-long friends and fellow lacrosse players, Bruce Stegner and Kenneth Carpenter, started a GoFundMe page to help Colin with any money donated being used to ease the burden on him for his long-term care and medical expenses and any unused funds being donated to The National Brain Tumour Society in the Clive family name.
England Lacrosse would like offer our condolences and best wishes to Colin at this extremely difficult time.
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